Description:
This book examines major trends and interventions affecting children. Topics include the UN Convention on Children, NGOs, pre and post-natal health, family systems, gender roles, puberty, and challenges like sex trafficking, child labor, and violence. It also addresses future challenges such as literacy, migration, and mental health.
Review Quotes:
At the core of any healthy society, there are healthy children and families that are not just fighting to survive, but truly thriving. Thank you to all the contributors in this series; this work will provide important insights for academics, practitioners, and everyday people as we design smarter, more evidence-based policies in order to bring about transformative change. - Anne Williams-Isom, New York City Health and Human Services
This much needed, timely and powerful book, written with the contribution of renowned psychologists and experts in behavioral science, takes us on a provocative journey through stressors and solutions in today's children's lives. This book, aimed at a large audience, stresses the urgent need to protect the life of children at risk, and to improve their mental health in both industrialized and developing nations. A cross-cultural, cross-disciplinary approach is key to finding efficient and creative solutions to this global challenge. - Maria Pia Belloni, UN Committee on Migration; Subcommittee on Children in Migration
This collection of 15 timely and superbly crafted chapters is the brainchild of three internationally renowned editors: Drs. Elaine Congress, Uwe Gielen, and Niels Peter Rygaard, and a rising star recent graduate Julia Larock. Offering a practical tool for researchers, professionals and organizations, the volume covers practically every urgent need. Many of the chapters include riveting case studies with clear guidelines and examples of proven evidence-based interventions. Children of the World may very well be one of the most important and impactful mental health books of the next two decades. - Joseph Ponterotto, Handbook of Multicultural Counseling
This book will serve as a valuable resource not only to those working directly with children, but to all concerned about the future of the world. - Judy Gibbons, American Psychological Association Division 52